Flipswap Inc. was a company headquartered in Torrance, California.
Flipswap acquired mobile phones in order to resell them or recycle them in an
environmentally friendly
Environment friendly processes, or environmental-friendly processes (also referred to as eco-friendly, nature-friendly, and green), are sustainability and marketing terms referring to goods and services, laws, guidelines and policies that clai ...
manner through various free and eco-friendly services. Flipswap partners with a wide array of retailers, e-tailers, device manufacturers and websites. Flipswap offered trade-in services for instant store credit at more than 6,000 participating retail locations
In 2008, Flipswap raised $14M in series B funding from
RRE Ventures
RRE Ventures is an American Venture capital, Venture Capital firm based in New York City. The firm primarily invests in Seed money, seed, Series A round, series A and series B rounds and focuses on companies operating in the software, internet, c ...
and NGEN Partners
In February 2011,
AT&T
AT&T Inc. is an American multinational telecommunications holding company headquartered at Whitacre Tower in Downtown Dallas, Texas. It is the world's largest telecommunications company by revenue and the third largest provider of mobile tel ...
began offering Flipswap services through all its corporate retail locations
In 2012, FlipSwap was acquired by eRecyclingCorps.
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Flipswap
Mobile phone recycling
Recycling organizations
Telecommunications companies of the United States
Companies based in Los Angeles County, California
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